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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, n.
   1. a cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within
      anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow
      of the hand or of a tree.
      1913 webster

   2. a low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a
      surface; a concavity; a channel.
      1913 webster

            forests grew
            upon the barren hollows.              --prior.
      1913 webster

            i hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
                                                  --tennyson.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, a. oe. holow, holgh, holf, as. holh a hollow,
   hole. cf. hole.
   1. having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial,
      within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the
      interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
      1913 webster

            hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --ex. xxvii.
                                                  8.
      1913 webster

   2. depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
      1913 webster

            with hollow eye and wrinkled brow.    --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
      deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
      a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --milton.
      1913 webster

   hollow newel arch., an opening in the center of a winding
      staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being
      supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the
      stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a
      staircase.

   hollow quoin engin., a pier of stone or brick made behind
      the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
      recess to receive the ends of the gates.

   hollow root. bot. see moschatel.

   hollow square. see square.

   hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron
      kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

   syn: syn.- concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
        faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
        1913 webster
see also:
hole hollow newel hollow quoin hollow root moschatel hollow square 
square hollow ware 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, v. t. imp.  p. p. hollowed; p. pr.  vb.
   n. hollowing.
   to make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to
   excavate. "trees rudely hollowed." --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
hollowed hollowing 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, adv.
   wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to
   beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all
   hollow. see all, adv. colloq.
   1913 webster

         the more civilized so-called caucasian races have
         beaten the turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
                                                  --darwin.
   1913 webster
see also:
all 
[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hollow"\, interj. see hollo.
   hollo.
   1913 webster
see also:
hollo 
[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, v. i.
   to shout; to hollo.
   1913 webster

         whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
                                                  --fuller.
   1913 webster

[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hollow \hol"low\, v. t.
   to urge or call by shouting.
   1913 webster

         he has hollowed the hounds.              --sir w.
                                                  scott.
   1913 webster

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0
hollow
     adj 1: not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall";
            "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became
            gaunter and more hollow with each year" ant: solid
     2: deliberately deceptive; "hollow or false promises"; "false
        pretenses" syn: false
     3: as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of
        footsteps in the empty ballroom"
     4: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow
        victory"; "vacuous comments" syn: empty, vacuous
     n 1: a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the
          hollows in their cheeks"
     2: a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin
        in a hollow high up in the appalachians" syn: holler
     3: a depression hollowed out of solid matter syn: hole
     v 1: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company
          wants to excavate the hillsite" syn: excavate, dig
     2: remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" syn: hollow
        out, core out
see also:
solid false empty vacuous holler hole 
excavate dig hollow out core out 
[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
293 moby thesaurus words for "hollow":
   absurd, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture,
   apparently sound, arid, armpit, artificial, bare, baritone, barren,
   basin, bass, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, boat-shaped,
   boatlike, booth, bootless, bowl, bowl-shaped, bowllike, box,
   broaching, casuistic, cave, cave in, cavelike, cavern, cavernous,
   cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, characterless, chasm, check, clear,
   clearing, cleft, cold, colorable, colorless, compartment, concave,
   concaved, concavity, contralto, costly, counterfeit, crack, crater,
   craterlike, crevasse, crib, crypt, cup, cup-shaped, cupped,
   cymbiform, cynical, dale, dead, deceitful, deceptive, deep,
   deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dell, dent,
   dented, depressed, depression, depth, devoid, dig out, dig up, dip,
   disclosure, dish, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike,
   dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
   dredge, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
   empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled,
   enclosed space, etiolated, excavate, excavation, fade, fallacious,
   false, famished, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feigned,
   fenestra, fistula, flat, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen,
   fraudulent, fruitless, funnel chest, funnel-breasted,
   funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, furrow, futile, gap, gape, gat,
   glen, gouge, grave, gulf, heavy, hiatus, ho-hum, hold, hole,
   hollow out, hollow shell, hollowed, hungry, hypocritical, idle,
   illusive, impression, inane, incurve, incurved, incurving,
   incurvous, indentation, indented, ineffective, inexcitable,
   infundibular, infundibuliform, inlet, insincere, insipid, interval,
   jejune, jesuitic, lacuna, laying open, leaden, leak, lifeless, low,
   low-pitched, low-spirited, manger, mealymouthed, meaningless,
   mendacious, muffled, navicular, naviform, null, null and void,
   opening, opening up, orifice, otiose, outlet, overrefined,
   oversubtle, pale, pallid, passageway, pedestrian, pew,
   philosophistic, pit, plausible, plodding, pocket, pointless, poky,
   ponderous, pore, profitless, punch bowl, rattlebrained,
   rattleheaded, ravenous, retire, retiring, retreat, retreating,
   reverberant, sag, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scatterbrained, scoop,
   scyphate, senseless, sepulchral, shaft, sham, shell, sink, sinkage,
   sinkhole, sinus, slot, slow, socket, solemn, sophistic,
   sophistical, space, specious, spiritless, split, spoonlike,
   spurious, stall, starved, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoma, stuffy,
   sunk, sunken, superficial, tasteless, tedious, throwing open,
   toneless, tongue in cheek, trough, unavailing, uncandid, uncorking,
   unfilled, unfrank, unlively, unprofitable, unrelieved, unserious,
   unstopping, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vain, valley, valueless,
   vapid, vault, void, vug, well, white, with nothing inside,
   without content, wooden, worthless, yawn, yawning abyss





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